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Domain names as trademarks and their protection
Pultzner, Martin ; Růžička, Michal (advisor) ; Pítra, Vladimír (referee)
Domain names as trademarks and their protection Martin Pultzner Importance of the internet is rising year to year and the virtual presence on the world- wide-web is absolutely essential for companies trying to succeed in such a competitive and dynamic environment as we see it in the modern world of 21st century. Due to the architecture of an internet as such, only one particular domain name can be registered at the given time and no other domain name with the exactly same wording can be registered anywhere in the world at the same time. There is a strict "first-come-first served" policy, which, on the one side, grants equal and fair access to any domain name, but on the other hand creates significant room for domain speculators and other persons who intend to register domain names in a bad faith and/or only for the profit therefrom. We mainly recognize behavior called cybersquatting or typosquatting, but also others subtypes and similar types of such behavior do exist under different names. These are problematic because of the conflict of a domain name (registered by the speculator) and rights to the trademark, business name or other rights of a different person, mostly a company. Internet users can therefore be misled by the domain name, presuming that it belongs to the known company and get...
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